Adolf Hoffmann-Heyden

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Adolf Hoffmann-Heyden (1896)

Adolf Hoffmann-Heyden (born October 31, 1877 in Zabrze in Upper Silesia , † March 1, 1964 in Potsdam ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Hoffmann-Heyden studied medicine at the University of Breslau and passed his state examination there in 1900 . During his studies he became a member of the Corps Silesia Breslau . He then did military service as a one-year volunteer doctor in the field artillery regiment No. 42. He then worked first in Halle (Saale) and then from 1901 to 1902 as an assistant doctor at the Pathological Institute in Breslau and from 1903 to around 1907 at the local surgical university clinic . He received his doctorate in 1902 in Breslau with his dissertation Obstetric significance of fetal hydrocephaly . In 1907 Hoffmann-Heyden moved to the Greifswald University Clinic, where he qualified as a private lecturer in surgery in 1909. In the same year he became senior physician at the University Surgical Clinic. In 1912 he was given the title of professor. After the First World War he was director of the city hospital in Guben from 1919 to 1933 and then settled down as a specialist in surgery in Potsdam.

literature

  • Kunth: Obituary for Hoffmann-Heyden. In: Corpszeitung der Silesia zu Breslau , 44th year (1964), issue 127, pp. 5-6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Sachs: Johann von Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905) and its importance for the development of modern surgery. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 14, 1996, pp. 85-146; here: p. 119 ( Adolph Hoffmann ).